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''Critters'' is a film series featuring a group of deadly little furry aliens with several rows of teeth known as "Crites". The first film, directed by Stephen Herek, was released in 1986. In it, the title creatures terrorize a farm, with a pair of alien bounty hunters on their trail. It Starred a young Scott Grimes; also starring: Dee Wallace-Stone, M. Emmet Walsh, [[Star Trek: Voyager|Ethan Phillips]], Billy Zane, Don Keith Opper, and Terrance Mann. The latter two would appear in all of the films.
The second film was released in 1988, featuring the return of Scott Grimes as Bradley Brown (the main character from the first film). The terror starts when the creature's eggs are mistaken for Easter eggs; they quickly multiply after they hatch.
The third film, starring [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] in his film debut, begins when a family who has recently lost their mother move into an apartment, followed by the title creatures after hitching a ride in their truck.
The final film takes place many years later in space, where they try to wipe out the remaining species of Crites.
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=== This film series provides examples of the following tropes: ===
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* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: The first film ends with village idiot Charlie following the alien bounty hunters as they prepare to leave. By the second film he has become a bounty hunter himself.
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Any humans killed by the bounty hunters.
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* [[Billing Displacement]]: As with ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'', Dee Wallace-Stone (the mom) gets top-billing in the first film.
* [[The Blank]]: Ugg and Lee's default forms are white faces that lack features.
* [[Bounty Hunter]]: [[Space X|Space bounty hunters]] are despatched to kill the Crites in the original film, and feature to some extent in all the sequels.
* [[The Can Kicked Him]]: In the original a Krite gets stuck in the toilet, which is then blown up.
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* [[Human Popsicle]]: Charlie and a few Crite eggs get cryogenically frozen at the end of the third film, setting up the events of part 4.
* [[Magic Countdown]]: [[Subverted]], because the ship's AI is too stupid to realize that [[Talking Is a Free Action|talking is]] ''[[Talking Is a Free Action|not]]'' [[Talking Is a Free Action|a free action.]]
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: See [[Stripped to the Bone]] below for ''Critters 2''. Though some "meat" is still left ... just enough for the red skeleton to twitch. Sheesh ...
* [[Oh Crap]]: Quite a few, but the father's reaction in the first film when one of the Crites' poison spines slams into the wood an inch from his eyes is probably the strongest example.
* [[Old Shame]]: Leonardo Di Caprio debuts in ''Critters 3''. Bet he leaves that one off his résumé.
* [[Power-Up Food]]: In the first film the Crites get progressively bigger the more they eat. One of them is roughly the size of an adult human by the conclusion. This is largely abandoned in the later films, particularly the third and fourth.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Uttered by a Krite (its subtitled) in the original.
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* [[Shapeshifter Default Form]]: The bounty hunters start as Type A [[The Blank|blank faces]]. Through the sequels Ug is Type B, allowing Terrance Mann to continue playing him.
* [[Stock Footage]]: The exterior shots in ''Critters 4'' are cobbled together from a variety of sci-fi films.
* [[Stripped to the Bone]]: A victim of the Krite Ball in ''Critters 2''. [http://horrordaily.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/critters2_shot3l.jpg This rare example] shows the bones in a small amount of bloody "meat"]].
* [[Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome]]: Ug in the fourth movie.
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: [[Played for Laughs]] and [[Averted]] in the fourth film's climax.
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